charters, models, standards of practice Flashcards
List the CHN standards of practice
Health promotion
Prevention and health protection
Health maintenance, restoration, palliation
Professional relationships
Capacity building
Health equity
Evidence informed practice
Professional responsibility and accountability
What are the six essential functions of public health?
- health protection
- health surveillance
- population health assessment
- disease and injury prevention
- health promotion
- emergency preparation and response
Define health protection
Health protection is a chief function of public health. Canada’s water supply and food are protected from contamination. Regulatory frameworks protect the population from infectious diseases and from environmental threats.
Define Health Surveillance
Public health professionals use health surveillance techniques to collect population data on an ongoing basis to detect early signs of illness and disease trends or outbreaks. Surveillance data provide the information needed to intervene in an effective manner to mitigate disease impact.
Define Population health assessment
Population health assessment is a tool to ensure public health programs, services, and policies are adequately meeting goals and objectives.
Define disease and injury prevention
Public health professionals contribute to the longevity and quality of life of Canadians through disease and injury prevention. (ex. immunizations)
Define health promotion
Public health professionals improve the health of Canadians through healthy public policy, public participation, and community-based interventions.
Define Emergency preparation and response
Public health professionals are aware of the immediate and secondary threats to population health incited by natural disasters.
Emergency preparedness and disaster response safeguard water supplies or food sources from contamination.
Define capacity building
the development of knowledge, skills, commitment, structures, systems, and leadership to enable effective health promotion.
What is included in the population health promotion model?
- level of action (who)
- determinants (what?)
- action strategies (how)
- Foundations (why)
What are the levels of action?
- individual
- family
- community
- structural or system
- society
What are the action strategies?
- note: based off of ottawa charter
- building health public policy
- strengthen community action
- create supportive environments
- develop personal skills
- re-orient health services
Define build healthy public policy
- Health promotion policy combines diverse but complementary approaches including legislation, fiscal measures, taxation and organizational change.
- coordinated action that leads to health, income and social policies that foster greater equity
Define develop personal skills
Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health and enhancing life skills.
Define Reorient health services
primarily about the health sector changing from focusing primarily on clinical and curative services to increasingly focus on health promotion and prevention. That is this action area is about reorienting health services to include and expand its role in the promotion of preventative health
- EX. providing guidelines for health professionals and their role in supporting cessation of tobacco use
